WAIMATE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 6 December 1880, Page 2

WAIMATE.

(from our own correspondent.) December 3.

Business during the current week has shown a slight'improvement, and we'have been favored with some welcome and ret freshing showers of rain. ' We are getting quite prolific in the matter of Working Men's Clubs. Certain senders from, the original Committee are busy fitting up a shop. ini,the main street, declaring themselves the original Club, others are -hold; iug, an to the old concern, £\nd another one will shortly be opened at the north end of the s At the B.M. Court yesterday, Thomsoii was: committed for tri'ali, and some sly l grog cases were remanded.- • Your correspondent, Mr. Hawksworth, is a brick, and "deserves great credit for the arduous labor he jyid his confreres have an behalf of the Colony, especially now that the tide of immigration is stopped., *1 hope h.e will in his statistics, the number of deaths from starvation that have taken place in the Colony during the last five years, and institute a comparison with those of the Old Country ; also the number of females he finds laboring in the fields for Is a day and find themselves; the number of beggars he meets in- a day, and the amount we pay in poor rates. Also that he will make a specialty of' the number of husbands who desert their wiveg and families. I refer him to your contemporary, the Waimato Times, of November 27, where he will find that a deserted wife and three children were allowed 153 a week from the charitable aid fund, and asked to pay no rent; and ask him to compare this with the parochial relief doled put at Home where the rates for supporting paupers, as nearly S3 I can recollect, average from to 4d per £■, and so on ad